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MSE News: 100s of Starbucks stores now selling half-price food an hour before closing
Starbucks customers can now get 50% off muffins, sandwiches and other snacks at many of the chain's coffee shops if they go an hour before closing time...Read the full story: '100s of Starbucks stores now selling half-price food an hour before closing' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to…
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Cheap sugar?
It's preserving time again so time to stock up on sugar for making the necessary jams, chutneys etc. Does anyone have any suggestions for the best place for picking up some cheap sugar? It's just the standard white stuff I'm after not preserving sugar or anything fancy. Many thanks. :)
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Anyone here from Southern Ireland.... need help please
I want to help a friend who lives near Cork... I'd like to send some foodstuff but just seen the price of postage :eek: He is chronically ill and spending more time at home. We have been talking about baking and so I want to send him a starter kit so that we can skype and bake at the same time.... a sort of bake-off :D .…
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Cheapest place for dried apricots?
Just wondering if anyone can tell me where they manage to get cheap dried apricots from? No weigh it yourself shops near me, or a market. I do have a home bargains and b&m, not on supermarket compare.
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Gluten Free
Hi. This is my 1st post as have just joined and haven't found this subject elsewhere. My daughter is on a gluten free diet, so is restricted somewhat with her food intake. We live in the central highlands of Scotland and have a Co-op and a Tescos express in our village and both, commendably have a modest g/f section. The…
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Shopping daily or weekly?
Hi I don't normally post over on this board, so I'm not sure if this has been asked before. Apologies if it has. Do people shop daily or weekly? I live alone and have been shopping daily, but i'm starting to realise that my fresh food is going off before I can use it. However I feel that if I resort to multiple shops per…
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Help! Food shop budget
Hi :) I've been in a really lucky position for a long time, with a husband and both of us earning good wages. I'm now divorced and back in a place where I need to budget. I've got 2 boys who live with me most of the time. How do I figure out what an acceptable level of spend on food and groceries is? I've done a budget…
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Sainsbury's change order to prevent giving substitutions.
Got shopping delivered from Sainsburys yesterday, a smallish order as I don't buy perishables from them due to short dates problems. Ordered included 8 bottles of wine, on offer, 4 for my daughter and 4 for me. Order arrived, no substitutions I was told, Order looked fine until I came to put shopping away. Only 7 bottles…
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Aldi charged my card TWICE!!!
Has anyone else been charged again by Aldi. Checked my account today and they've charged me again for a shop I did earlier this month. Plus to make things worse I've gone into my overdraft because of it
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Where to buy spices
I don't live anywhere near an Asian supermarket but would like to buy my spices in larger quantise than I can find locally. Certainly in larger quantise than you find in those little supermarkets jars! Can anyone offer me an online address where I can buy in larger quantise. Thanks
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Buying in Bulk
Do you do this? What are your tips? Do you wait for a good offer and then stock up by the armful? Do you buy enough for 6 months? A year? Where do you buy from? Amazon? Or is it irrelevant because your chosen brand is sold at a consistent price?
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Online comparison
Hey all, this may already exist but can't find on the forum. Does anyone know where I can find somewhere online to check what my shopping would be across the different supermarkets?
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New Food Products People May Wish To Check Out
One of my favourite threads here is the good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl thread. One problem though is that when you find something interesting from another supermarket (or source), there's no-where obvious to post it. And just one interesting product may be too trivial to create a whole thread on. Who knows if there's…
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Ocado - Paid via paypal - money not taken???/
Hello, I decided to buy some shopping via Ocado, they delivered yesterday, I got a notice from Paypal early hours of this morning saying Ocado have collected payment, but when I checked my bank account, the hold Paypal had on account for the shopping had gone, but no money had been taken. I checked my paypal and it shows…
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Price of Earl Grey tea
We went to a National Trust tearoom yesterday and had a pot of Earl Grey tea for two. Ordinary tea is charged at £1.65 per person (£3.30 for two). Earl Grey is priced at £1.85 (£3.70), 40p more. There were two tea-bags in the pot. I asked why there was such a difference and was told that they buy ordinary tea in bulk at a…
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M&S 3 - Steaks for £10!!
M&S Single Rump / Sirloin or Ribeye steaks are included in the brilliant 3 for £10 offer. Staff said it's only on for a week so be quick!! :j Official MoneySavingExpert insert Tue 15 Aug: If you’re shopping at an M&S food store (find your nearest), you can get three for £10 on selected meats and BBQ food including steak,…
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Cost of meat
I've been vegan since the mid 1990s, so am not in touch with the cost of meat. However, they keep having that Lidl add on television, saying that you can buy two filet steaks at M&S for £12. £12!?!?!?!?!? For two steaks? £6 each? I've actually checked on Sainsbury's, and these prices aren't exceptional.…
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Jacobs Oddities
These to have vanished from all my local supermarkets! Please does anyone know where I can buy them - or have they been discontinued?
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Dried mushrooms - where to buy?
Used my last packet of them. Bought several for 50p in Sainsburys a couple of years ago when they were discontinuing lines in the tinned veg section.
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Where to buy large bags of pasta
Has anyone any idea, :Dwhere I can buy big bags of pasta?
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